Pseudogenes seem to indicate that. Sickle Cell anemia seems to indicate a
genetic problem occurring because of a loss of genetic information. What I
had in mind was in increase in information HAD to occur for macroevolution
to take place. The primitive one-celled creature had to take one
additional information at some time for it to increase in complexity.
Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you free. John 8:32
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Cliff Lundberg <cliff@noevalley.com>
> To: evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: DNA info
> Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 6:55 PM
>
> Ron Chitwood wrote:
>
> > There is no recorded instance of an increase in DNA information.
> > Decreases, yes - increases, no.
>
> Ron, could you elaborate on this? What are the recorded instances
> of decreases in DNA-borne information?
>
> I woould think that the information content of DNA would be
> increasing even when the phenotype suffers loss of features.
> Simply because there are so many repeated sequences, but when
> random mutation acts upon these sequences, they become no
> longer identical, and the information content then increases.
>
> --
> Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com
>